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Buddhist Women’s Conference


If you haven't heard already, there's still time to register for the upcoming Buddhist Women's Conference. Occuring March 11 and brought to you by the Buddhist Council of the Midwest, the conference features Dr. Rita Gross and a plethora of interesting workshops on everything from the Zen of Gender ...>

Raining on Their Parade


There's a controversy brewing over the annual parade in San Francisco's Chinatown. Home of the country's oldest Buddhist community, Chinatown's Chamber of Commerce is in the ironic position of barring a Buddhist group from participating in the parade. Falun Dafa, more popularly known as Falun Gong ...>

Dharma Delivered to Your Door


The Los Angeles Times carries an article today about Spiritual Circle Cinema, a sort of Deep-Movie-of-the-Month Club. When a newspaper reporter starts off by saying that a DVD helped a woman find her "inner Zen," one is often inclined to question the merits of the product being offered--does anyon ...>

Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu


"Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder.Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth.Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate.Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that…"Martin Luther King, "Where do ...>

Redeeming Betrayers


The Times Online has an interesting article this week about a movement within the Roman Catholic church to rehabilitate the popular image of Judas Iscariot, betrayer of Jesus. Many theologians apparently think that Judas has been unfairly maligned in Christian history. The drive for change seems ...>

Buddhist Board Game


When you think about it, most board games are about defeating other players, often by simulated combat or by amassing more wealth than everyone else. Chess, checkers, Monopoly, Stratego, Battleship, Sorry, Risk, The Game of Life, etc. . . It makes you wonder what sort of lessons we're teaching kids ...>

Dukkha on the Rise


According to a USA Today story carried by Yahoo News, "Unhappiness has risen in the past decade." In 2004 researchers at the University of Chicago surveyed a cross-section of Americans about their attitudes and compared the results to a similar study done in 1991. Contrary to their expectations, ...>

The Transient and Permanent in Buddhism


Buddhist blogs have really taken off over the past year or two, and one of the most interesting sites is Fraught with Peril, the self-described "Frankenstein's Monster of Nichiren Buddhism." On F.W.P. a number of different writers from a variety of backgrounds and sects all park their blogs, provid ...>

Buddha Rising and Stumbling


The current issue of National Geographic has an article of obvious interest to readers of Tricycle: entitled "Buddha Rising," the essay by Perry Garfinkel, with beautiful photographs by Steve McCurry, represents both some of the best and the worst trends in reporting on Buddhism by mainstream media ...>

All Composite Things Are Subject to Change


Exciting news: Tricycle has expanded its stable of bloggers to include Stephen Batchelor, Sharon Salzberg, and Lin Jensen (and look for more in the future as well). A hearty welcome to these new Buddhist bloggers.This means changes for this blog as well. From now on, updates will occur at this add ...>

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